"Earlier this year, a Chinese AI chatbot called DeepSeek sent Silicon Valley into a tailspin when it released a new AI model that rivaled the likes of OpenAI's ChatGPT, while relying on only a fraction of the computing power. The lean open-source AI model, dubbed DeepSeek R1, was so impressive that it sparked a massive tech selloff, wiping out $1 trillion from a market-sustaining AI spending boom in late January."
"But it had a notable Achilles' heel as well: it abided closely by China's strident censorship rules, refusing to answer prompts about sensitive topics, like the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, or comparisons of president Xi Jinping to Winnie-the-Pooh. Now, researchers at Spanish quantum computing company Multiverse claim to have found a workaround, MIT Technology Review reports. And besides eliminating the model's heavy handed censorship, the company also says it has slimmed down the already extremely lean model by 55 percent."
DeepSeek R1 is a lean open-source AI model that matched larger models like ChatGPT while using far less compute and triggered a late-January tech selloff that erased about $1 trillion in market value. R1 adhered to strict Chinese censorship, refusing prompts on sensitive subjects such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and comparisons of Xi Jinping to Winnie-the-Pooh. Spanish quantum computing company Multiverse claims a workaround and reports a 55 percent model size reduction. Multiverse says its CompatifAI compression removes low-impact parameters, including specific learned behaviors like censorship, by using tensor-network techniques from quantum physics to manipulate large data grids.
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